Faculty members tend to be skeptical about attempts to go beyond grading with standardized definitions and measures of what students should learn -- the so-called student learning outcomes accreditors ...

Carol Boston says “Black and Wiliam (1998b) define assessment broadly to include all activities that teachers and students undertake to get information that can be used diagnostically to alter ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

While the idea of teaching critical thinking has been bandied around in education circles since at least the time of John Dewey, it has taken greater prominence in the education debates with the ...

Brian Seymour is the director of instructional technology at the Pickerington (Ohio) Local School District. To be honest, I hate the term blended learning. Let me explain why: In today’s world of ...

What is Assessment? Why is it important? Assessment is a core component of all teaching, learning and curricular activities. Assessments provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate how deeply ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Wednesday, the Arkansas Department of Education unveiled its plans for a new assessment system for K-12 students designed to raise expectations for student proficiency. It's all ...

Paul Moss explains how to structure online courses to build students’ knowledge methodically towards set learning outcomes and skills which should themselves, be used to shape assessment Over time and ...

The text came in when my cell signal returned, just as our car crossed over the eastern slope of the Allegheny Mountains. My mother’s message read simply: “On the front page of the opinion section … ...

The University of Bristol is aiming to be a UK top 10 university for teaching and research by 2030. Our new strategy sets out an ambitious approach for education which builds on Bristol’s strong ...